Chapter 438: Empty Stock (1/2)

When they had to find the army camp, it took the group much longer than now, when they knew the location of the city. As such, the trip to the city was shortened drastically.

It was as if every person who had been chosen for the selection had set out towards the city. They were all eager to prepare for the deployment to the frontline.

They all hurried to the various herbal shops, pill outlets, and other stores that sold various resources, and while Xue Wei and his friends also hurried to the City, they were slightly late. Most of the resources had been sold by the time they arrived.

The Imperial Capital, where they had arrived, was a place with ample resources, but it was not only the soldiers who needed them. Usually, they would sell most of their stock to the residents, and they did not have a large stockpile of items.

Every day, mercenaries would arrive in the Imperial Capital and sell the herbs and wares they had found while going out adventuring in the rest of the continent.

Ships would also appear in the harbor with items that they had imported from other continents, but they did not come often, and while they had some herb fields, the herbs grown there were all ordinary ones, and they were all beneath ten years old.

Although common herbs were the most sold ones, they were not useful for cultivators above the Saint rank; hence when the soldiers raided the Imperial Capital, all the resources had been taken wantonly, leaving only the common ingredients left.

As they saw the hectic and bustling city life, Xue Wei instantly knew that they had come too late, but he did not despair.

While most of the rare and most useful ingredients had been taken, he knew that not many studied the art of formations. The key ingredients when making a formation were essence stones and ores.

While he had plenty of both, most of them were of the same rank and affinity, so what he needed to buy was something of different attributes.

Those from the army camp were mainly here for herbs and pills, so Xue Wei could casually sweep all the rare ores away.

He also exchanged some of his top-ranked essence stones for high ranked, medium ranked, and low ranked essence stones.

Formations would work as long as energy was still present within the stones and ores that were placed with them. Although Xue Wei had numerous top-ranked essence stones, it was a waste to use them all the time, especially if the formation was not intended to work for long.

Hei Gou also found most of the things he needed to continue studying armament mastery. Especially since his skills were still a far cry from being able to make anything useable for them, so the things that he created just needed common materials.